Improvement in tables



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L. POST-AWKA.

T a b I e Patented April 20, 1875.

THE GRAPHIC C0.PHOTL).-L|TH.39&4I PARK PLACLNX- I UNITED STATES PATENTQFFIGE.

LOUIS POSTAWKA, OF OAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,304, dated April20, 1875; application filed July 3, 1874.

CASE A.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs POSTAWKA, of

'(Jambridgeport, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,have invented a new and useful Improvementin Tables, Stands, &c., ofwhich the following is a specification:

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in theclaim.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of a table contrived according tomyinvention. Fig. 2 is a plan View with a part broken ofi' and Fig. 3 isa side elevation of one of the fasteningbolts, and a section of the plugfor fastening the bolt in the socket in the standard.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the base; 13, the standard; 0, the table-top, and D the cross-pieceof the frame E, to which the tabletop is attached for attaching it tothe standard. In order to connect the parts, so that the top standardand base may be readily separated for packing econom ically, I make arecess or socket, 1*, in each end of the standard, as large as the headof a carriage-bolt, G, of proper size for the size of the table, fit thebolt in, as shown, and then till the socket snugly by a tubular plug, H,which I glue in, and thus permanently secure the bolt in the standard,so that it can be em ployed, in the manner indicated, for-bolting thebase and top to it. Besides the bolt, I fit one or more dowel-pins, G,of Wood, in each end of the standard, to prevent the bolt from turning.The nuts may be fastened by friction-washers or other means. One or morestandards may be connected in like manner to the base and top.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patcut- A fastening for table-standard legs, standAconsisting ofa headed and mid-threaded bolt, G, and a tubular filling,H, which is let into and adhesively secured to a socket, substantiallyas shown and described.

LOUIS POSTAWKA.

Witnesses:

T. B. MOSHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

